FSPM 04 07-11 June 2004, Montpellier, France

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Preliminary program
 
  Introductory talk : Hisao Honda : Hyogo University, Kakogawa, Hyogo, Japan
Guest talk : Evelyn Fox Keller, Mass. Inst. of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA

Session 1  Measurement and representation of plant architecture and environment (new techniques, data bases, standards, new botanical concepts)
Invited speaker : Francis Hallé, Université de Montpellier, France
Session 2  Analysis method and tools (statistics, geo-statistics, structure analysis in plant architecture)
Invited speaker : Yann Guédon, UMR Botanique et Bioinformatique de l'Architecture des Plantes, CIRAD, Montpellier, France
Session 3  Models of resource use and internal processes (water, element transport and allocation, phenology, signals)
Invited speaker : Peter Minchin, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Session 4  Models of interaction with the environment (climate, soil, plants, pests, animals)
Invited speaker : Michael Chelle, INRA, France
Session 5  Modelling/simulation/assessment methods and tools (theory and software, integrated models of plants, model inversion)
Invited speaker : Annikki Mäkelä, Department of Forest Ecology, University of helsinki, Finland
Session 6  Application of Functional/Structural models to problem solving in agronomy, forestry and ecology
Invited speaker : Robert W. Pearcy, Division of Biological Sciences, University of california, Davis, USA
Session 7  New trends in plant architecture modelling (genomics, temporal and spatial scaling problems, tissue modelling, ...)
Invited speaker : Enrico Coen, Cell & Developmental Biology Department, John Innes Center, Norwich, UK
Session 8  Software demo session (coupled with session on modelling methods and tools)